different between enthusiast vs folkie

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????????? (enthousiast?s, “an enthusiast, a zealot”), from ???????????? (enthousiázein, “(intransitive) be inspired or possessed by a god, be rapt, be in ecstasy, (transitive) inspire”): see enthusiasm.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?n???u?.zi??st/, /-?u?-/, /-æst/
• (Received Pronunciation, Ireland) IPA^(key): /?n???u.zi?æst/, /-???-/, /-?st/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /??n????.zi??st/, /en-/, /-?ï?-/, /-æst/

Noun

enthusiast (plural enthusiasts)

1. A person filled with or guided by enthusiasm.

   Synonyms: addict, aficionado, amateur, fancier, fan, fanatic, fiend, freak, geek, junkie, rooter, maniac, partisan, (computing) power user, (marketing) prosumer, zealot

2. (archaic) A person exhibiting over-zealous religious fervour.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• -phile

Further reading

• enthusiast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• enthusiast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Tushetians, sustaineth

English

Etymology

folk +? -ie

Noun

folkie (plural folkies)

1. A folk singer, or an enthusiast of folk music.
   • 2011, David Yaffe, Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown, p. 16:

     He had come to Carnegie Hall not to imitate him but to channel him with the self he happened to be at that moment, not at all the green folkie who had set the world ablaze just a few years earlier.

Adjective

folkie (comparative folkier, superlative folkiest)

1. of, or relating to folk music

Anagrams

• like of

Spanish

Noun

folkie m (plural folkies)

1. folkie